Shaded like a carpet of flowers, one of Hadid's lines leads
the visitor into the building, bathing the exhibition rooms in a new
light. The atmospheric connection between interior and exterior is further
articulated in an architectonic blossom in the gallery on the upper floor.
Imbedded
in this ambience, the art from the collection acquires a new kind of
attraction and perspective: thus, Martin
Kippenberger, Andreas Gursky, Andreas
Slominski, and Wolfgang Tillmans were on the list of works requested
by the Japanese curators. Tobias
Rehberger is taking part with watercolors and drawings, together with
the South African William
Kentridge and the British Turner Prize-winner Chris
Ofili. Additional highlights are Gerhard
Richter's oil painting Canoe Ride and collages by the Belgian
artist Francis
Alys, who lives in Mexico City.
Chris
Ofili, Untitled, 2001
Sammlung
Deutsche Bank
Yet the collection is not only present in international metropolises: not
far from Frankfurt, the small village Seligenstadt offers, along with its
picturesque latticework buildings and a Romanesque basilica, a true art
center in which a high-caliber exhibition can be seen starting in May. Blind
Date is the title of the show for which British curator Jessica
Morgan is serving as a "dating agent". Yet it’s not about people getting
to know one another here in an unexpected encounter, but works of art from
the Deutsche Bank Collection. In keeping with this concept, the
exhibition presents newer acquisitions next to other works from the
collection respectively in pairs to demonstrate unusual elective
affinities, cross-references, or attractions between the more than forty
pairs of artists.
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László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (La
Sarratz), 1928/30, Deutsche Bank Collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
2006
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Markus Amm, Untitled 11, 2005,
Deutsche
Bank Collection
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László
Moholy-Nagy meets Markus
Amm, the geometric forms of whose current photographic works refer to
the abstract photograms of the Bauhaus classic. Or Joseph
Beuys meets his student Martin
Kippenberger. Yet sometimes the dates are thematic in nature: thus, in
67 graphic works, Matt
Saunders pays tribute to the actor Udo
Kier in close-up, while Katharina
Sieverding's face merges with that of her husband in her photo work Transformer
from 1973.
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Karl Blossfeldt, from: Urformen der
Kunst, 1923, Deutsche Bank Collection, (c) Karl Blossfeldt Archiv -
Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich 2006
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Yukio Nakagawa, Genei No Hito, 2000,
Deutsche Bank Collection
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At the same time, Karl
Blossfeldt's scientific-looking black and white images of plant
details contrast with the morbid elegance of wilted petals in the colored
photographs of Yukio
Nakagawa. Like the anniversary show 25
at the Deutsche
Guggenheim, for which prominent godfathers were asked to choose their
favorite works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Blind Date
departs from the customary path of chronological presentation and strives
instead for juxtaposition and dialogue.
Hanne
Darboven, Hommage à Picasso (details),
1995-2006,
Deutsche Bank Collection
Photo:
Mathias Schormann, © Hanne Darboven
Hanne
Darboven's installation Hommage à Picasso , which can be
seen starting in February at the Deutsche Guggenheim, also consitutes a
dialogue: Darboven's commissioned work for the Deutsche Guggenheim
immerses the viewer in a sea of 9,720 pages covered in written lines
recording the last decade of the 20th century. She combines her notes with
the lithography of a famous painting: Picasso's
Woman with Turkish Headdress from 1955. The unusual, colorfully
painted frame of the graphic work became the point of departure for the
show. Polish craftsmen decorated it in Picasso-like manner to match the
lithography; in doing so, they transformed stylistic elements of "high
art" into ornament. Using this as a prototype, Darboven had 270 frames
fabricated in Poland to contain 36 of her written pages each in the
exhibition. Thus, the show becomes a cryptic dual portrait of the two
artists. Hung closely together, the panels covered in written dates
transform the exhibition hall into a space for meditation. Visitors can
either immerse themselves in the incessant flow of time or in questions
regarding artistic style and identity.
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